{"id":3553,"date":"2010-02-22T09:35:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T14:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2010-02-22T09:35:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T14:35:44","slug":"repostthe-art-of-selling-an-expensive-watch-wsj-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/22\/repostthe-art-of-selling-an-expensive-watch-wsj-com\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::The Art of Selling an Expensive Watch &#8211; WSJ.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Mr. Br\u00fccker, hovering nearby, sent Mr. Huynh over to offer the wife a watch. \u201cIt\u2019s not to sell her a watch. It\u2019s to occupy her,\u201d he whispered. \u201cShe\u2019s bored and she will say, \u2018OK, let\u2019s go.\u2019\u2009\u201d<br \/>\nThese happen to be key tenets of casino marketing, which revolves around flattering men, distracting their wives, and keeping them around as long as possible; the longer they stay, the more likely they are to spend money. <strong>But Mr. Br\u00fccker was never disdainful of customers\u2014in fact, he championed the need for better, more thoughtful service that makes the customer sense caring and quality \u2014the stuff of luxury.<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cYou\u2019re selling pure emotion,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s why I love this job.\u201d<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203517304574304322707126380.html\">The Art of Selling an Expensive Watch &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Br\u00fccker, hovering nearby, sent Mr. Huynh over to offer the wife a watch. \u201cIt\u2019s not to sell her a watch. It\u2019s to occupy her,\u201d he whispered. \u201cShe\u2019s bored and she will say, \u2018OK, let\u2019s go.\u2019\u2009\u201d These happen to be key tenets of casino marketing, which revolves around flattering men, distracting their wives, and keeping &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/22\/repostthe-art-of-selling-an-expensive-watch-wsj-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::The Art of Selling an Expensive Watch &#8211; WSJ.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}